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Tempting Fate (Plenty of)

by Mr. Silverstone and Silvertone Orchestra

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Wrote this imagining Robbie Robertson/Rick Danko/Garth Hudson/Levon Helm playing it in the style of The Band. Playing it on a guitar, that's how it seemed. A kind of ragged band of heartbroke guys with their Civil War era hearts on their sleeves feeling. . .

But then in the world of synthesized virtual music reality, there are orchestral string sections, horn parts and such, and it became a major production that is much more R & B, if you can call anything with a string section from the Hollywood Bowl R & B. The lead singer is me, and the back up singer is--me. That kind of affects the authentic context for the song. It's the me-brothers, laying it all out on the line for you, baby.

I shouldn't tell this to any of you, but Randy Newman has this song "Marie" which features a string section and a really vulnerable and sincere lyric. I always loved that song. I'm gong to erase all this information soon, so I'm going to pretend I never said any of this if anyone asks me. It's bad form to box in the interpretation of a song, because then it always has to be linked to the facts that leak out about it, which are interesting but often less relevant and interesting than what gets evoked in people because of what they bring to it.

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Plenty of
Music and Lyrics by Michael Alan Silverstone
7/10/11
©2011 Mr. Silverstone Music Publishing/ASCAP

I’m probably tempting fate
I shouldn’t attempt
to get so high up on a ladder
I can imagine you talking with me
Saying o.k.
but right now that just doesn’t matter

‘cause all we once had
may be gone to us now
and all we have is what we love
and what I never presumed before to know

Not good to deny ourselves
We just live once
and may not get another chance here
Desire may call to you
Never knew how to choose the ones
that really need an answer

But all we have now may be lost in the end
What we find is what we love
And what I never presumed,
in my life, to know

You’re the only one
I ever knew
To care enough
This real and true
So beautiful
Though we' re opposites
And there’s a lot of reasons
I delight in this

The way it is
The way we were
Before anything
Had yet occurred
I knew the place
I had to be
Where you are
Forever
Is where I want to be
. . .

We’ll probably never know
Why we’re unsure
Maybe that’s just how we want it
Maybe didn’t take first last time
But I can feel in my bones
We’ve got no cause to be sardonic

All we have
May be gone anytime
And all we can give is our love
Which I know our life has always had
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Which I know our life has always had
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released July 10, 2011

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Michael Silverstone Northampton, Massachusetts

Born, in Ohio in the 20th Century. Live in Massachusetts in the 21st. I am a myth made of charged points of energy mostly in empty space, but I do love to write, sing, and record songs.

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